Roman Catholic Church of the Corpus Christi is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1976. Church.
Roman Catholic Church of the Corpus Christi
- WRENN ID
- odd-flagstone-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth East MP: Tom Hayes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1976
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Roman Catholic Church of the Corpus Christi, Christchurch Road
- OS grid reference
- SZ 120 919
- Coordinates
- 50.72725, -1.83008
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roman Catholic Church of the Corpus Christi was built between 1895 and 1896 by architect J W Lunn of Great Malvern for Baroness Pauline von Hugel. This church features a tall tower with an octagonal belfry, which was added between 1932 and 1935 by W C Mangan, who also extended the nave. Designed in an Early English style, the church is constructed of red brick with stone dressings. It has a six-bay nave supported by double-chamfered arches on octagonal columns, with paired lancet windows in the aisles that include hoodmoulds and a stringcourse, as well as a lancet clerestory.
The church includes a polygonal baptistry at the south-west, along with two polygonal chapels off the aisles. The chancel consists of two bays with a polygonal apse, where detached stone colonnettes of the inner arches of the lancets extend down to a stringcourse just above the altar. The apse is also present in the south chapel, and there is a transeptal chapel to the north. Inside, there is a brass memorial to Baroness von Hugel, who died in 1901, created by Hardman.
Local climate
Roman Catholic Church of the Corpus Christi receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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